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Photo Gallery: Cloud to Ground Lightning

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A tangle of lightning, including multiple ground strikes, crackles in the Montana sky. At any given time, some 2,000 thunderstorms worldwide produce lightning that strikes the Earth about 100 times every second. Photograph by Tom (Montana) Murphy